Loyalty cards can be a pain in the behind. Literally. With so many men carrying overstuffed wallets shoved into their back pockets, the rise of Wallet Sciatica seems to be increasing with each loyalty card collected.
But who passes on an opportunity for a…
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Andrés Monroy-Hernandez is a researcher doing his PhD at the MIT Media Lab. His focus is on social computing. He analyses and designs social software that supports collaboration. Andrés holds a MS in Media Technology from MIT and a BS in Electronic Systems Engineering from Tec de…
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Ming Shen is one of those serial entrepreneurs. He set up a holding company, Netccentric Pte. Ltd., with his partner, Timothy Tiah, while fresh out of the London School of Economics with the intention to launch multiple business ideas.
They started with blog advertising network…
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Here’s the Singapore addition to our big chart of Southeast Asia government funding schemes for tech startups.
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I am a student, an aspiring entrepreneur and also, Malaysian. If not for the opportunity to study in the National University of Singapore, I would have accepted an offer in a local Malaysian university and remained at home. Having being exposed to the startup environment in Singapore and also looking…
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With the reported increase in Singaporean private property prices in the second quarter, the property market seems primed to hold true to its promise of constant growth, albeit at a slower pace. What this translates into, for home financing service companies such as Smartloans.sg and PropertyGuru, is an increase in…
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In their bid to take Silicon Valley virtual, echelon 2010 startup - Grow VC has launched a new crowd-funding model, the Virtual VC Co-investment Fund. Paired with their current offering of community funding and private investor model, Grow VC continues to make early phase funding…
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![[Interview] FlutterScape’s Global Domination Plans With Japanese Products](http://e27.sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/flutterscape-logo.JPG){kind=logo}
One of the exhibiting startups that managed to garner some interest from attendees at echelon 2010 was FlutterScape. We managed to grab a quick word with two of the co-founders, Takehiro Kakiyama and Ari Awan.
FlutterScape combines the…
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![[Interview] – Pair Programming and Productivity With the Founders of Gameplan](http://e27.sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/gameplan-echelon.png)
We managed to grab a quick word with Gameplan founders Andy Croll and Arun Thampi during echelon 2010 last week. Gameplan’s software allows easier organization of sports leagues by lessening the hassle and pain, much like what basecamp does for project management.
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![[Interview] On Task Management and HongKong Startups – Interview With Jonathan Buford from Tasksee](http://e27.sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tasksee_logo_lg.png){kind=logo}
To help keep everyone in the loop about the exhibiting startups at echelon 2010, we managed to talk to the founder of Tasksee, Jonathan Buford. However, due to some technical difficulties, we only managed to retrieve a snippet of the interview.
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